Summer 2020

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For this issue on health and humanities, our cover illustration by Wenjia Tang shows an idealized community, its parts in balance with each other and with nature.

Summer 2020

Volume 41, Issue 3

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Editor's Note

black and white portraits of Louise Dupe and Maryanne Wolf

Citizen Readers

An interview with Louise Dubé and Maryanne Wolf about civics and the reading brain

Jon Parrish Peede

Dancer Alice Sheppard performs onstage with arms outstretched.

Body of Work

Sara Hendren knows that one size does not fit all

Elizabeth Word Gutting

Painting by Wilhelm List of a deceased woman, St. Elizabeth, carried by angels.

A Beautiful Ending

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Also in this issue

AIDS in One City: The San Francisco Story

How an archive captures recent history

David Skinner

The Last Pandemic

Using history to guide us in the difficult present

E. Thomas Ewing

Irena Sendler and the Girls from Kansas

Jack Mayer

Executive Function with Delaware's Michele Anstine

Jordan Howell

Martin Seligman and the Rise of Positive Psychology

Peter Gibbon

Monumental Women

Adelaide Johnson, the Sculptor of Suffrage

Kimberly A. Hamlin

Roughing It (with Servants, of Course)

How the Adirondacks became the hot vacation spot of the Gilded Age

Randi Storch and Kevin B. Sheets

Thomas Mann’s Civilized Uncertainty

Algis Valiunas

Stolen Across the Ohio

W. Caleb McDaniel

The Wild All Around

The environmental humanities help us see our own nature.

Vyta Baselice